Richard J. Morris

9.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
114 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Richard J. Morris is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard J. Morris has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Molecular Biology, 55 papers in Plant Science and 17 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Richard J. Morris's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (26 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (17 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (16 papers). Richard J. Morris is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (26 papers), Protein Structure and Dynamics (17 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (16 papers). Richard J. Morris collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and United States. Richard J. Morris's co-authors include Victor S. Lamzin, Anastassis Perrakis, Janet M. Thornton, Giles Oldroyd, Abdullah Kahraman, Roman A. Laskowski, Matthew J. Evans, Jongho Sun, Rafaël Najmanovich and Nick Pullen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Richard J. Morris

111 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Automated protein model building combined with iterative structure refinement.

1999 2.3k citations Anastassis Perrakis, Richard J. Morris et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard J. Morris United Kingdom	36	4.1k	2.4k	1.4k	549	404	114	6.9k
Xi Cheng China	21	5.8k 1.4×	1.5k 0.6×	521 0.4×	546 1.0×	422 1.0×	54	8.3k
Narmada Thanki United States	20	5.6k 1.4×	2.2k 0.9×	768 0.5×	694 1.3×	362 0.9×	33	8.8k
Florian Kiefer Switzerland	18	5.1k 1.3×	908 0.4×	877 0.6×	741 1.3×	443 1.1×	29	8.1k
Liam J. McGuffin United Kingdom	35	7.1k 1.7×	839 0.3×	1.7k 1.2×	765 1.4×	666 1.6×	76	9.0k
Marco Biasini Switzerland	8	4.7k 1.1×	863 0.4×	639 0.5×	630 1.1×	377 0.9×	10	7.2k
Krzysztof Ginalski Poland	44	4.9k 1.2×	751 0.3×	634 0.5×	601 1.1×	358 0.9×	105	6.3k
David W. Rice United Kingdom	50	5.2k 1.3×	864 0.4×	2.4k 1.7×	866 1.6×	293 0.7×	216	8.8k
ChulHee Kang United States	44	6.0k 1.5×	1.0k 0.4×	995 0.7×	540 1.0×	545 1.3×	126	7.8k
Akinori Sarai Japan	44	6.4k 1.6×	1.1k 0.4×	896 0.6×	611 1.1×	229 0.6×	165	7.8k
Damiano Piovesan Italy	24	4.0k 1.0×	1.2k 0.5×	522 0.4×	490 0.9×	213 0.5×	61	5.3k

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Paajanen, Pirita, Hannah Rae Thomas, Federico Apelt, et al.. (2025). Re-analysis of mobile mRNA datasets raises questions about the extent of long-distance mRNA communication. Nature Plants. 11(5). 977–984. 8 indexed citations

Morris, Richard J., et al.. (2025). On the overinterpretation of mass screening data – the example of mobile mRNA. Trends in Plant Science. 30(10). 1085–1096. 1 indexed citations

Smith, Richard S., et al.. (2025). Symplastic guard cell connections buffer pressure fluctuations to promote stomatal function in grasses. New Phytologist. 246(1). 192–203. 3 indexed citations

Dornburg, Alex, Rachel Williams, Michael E. Alfaro, et al.. (2024). Considering Decoupled Phenotypic Diversification Between Ontogenetic Phases in Macroevolution: An Example Using Triggerfishes (Balistidae). Systematic Biology. 73(2). 434–454. 1 indexed citations

Jennings, J.R., Matthew G. Johnston, Andrew Breakspear, et al.. (2023). Assaying Effector Cell-to-Cell Mobility in Plant Tissues Identifies Hypermobility and Indirect Manipulation of Plasmodesmata. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 37(2). 84–92. 6 indexed citations

Griffiths, Cara A., et al.. (2023). Delayed development of basal spikelets in wheat explains their increased floret abortion and rudimentary nature. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(17). 5088–5103. 14 indexed citations

Gupta, Saurabh, et al.. (2022). Exact Bayesian inference for the detection of graft-mobile transcripts from sequencing data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 19(197). 20220644–20220644. 6 indexed citations

Adamski, Nikolai M., James Simmonds, Iain C. Macaulay, et al.. (2022). High expression of the MADS-box gene VRT2 increases the number of rudimentary basal spikelets in wheat. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 189(3). 1536–1552. 22 indexed citations

Morris, Richard J. & Kirsten ten Tusscher. (2021). Quantitative plant biology—Old and new. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. e8–e8. 1 indexed citations

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Meisrimler, Claudia‐Nicole, et al.. (2020). Interior design: how plant pathogens optimize their living conditions. New Phytologist. 229(5). 2514–2524. 22 indexed citations

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Jones, D. Marc, Rachel Wells, Nick Pullen, et al.. (2018). Spatio‐temporal expression dynamics differ between homologues of flowering time genes in the allopolyploid Brassica napus. The Plant Journal. 96(1). 103–118. 18 indexed citations

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Bourdais, Gildas, Deirdre H. McLachlan, Ji Zhou, et al.. (2018). The use of quantitative imaging to investigate regulators of membrane trafficking in Arabidopsis stomatal closure. Traffic. 20(2). 168–180. 20 indexed citations

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Morris, Richard J., et al.. (2017). Performance of five pasture‐based dairy systems with increasing levels of nitrogen fertiliser and associated stocking rates. New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research. 61(1). 1–26. 2 indexed citations

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Charpentier, Myriam, Jongho Sun, Guru Radhakrishnan, et al.. (2016). Nuclear-localized cyclic nucleotide–gated channels mediate symbiotic calcium oscillations. Science. 352(6289). 1102–1105. 201 indexed citations

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Calderwood, Alexander, Stanislav Kopřiva, & Richard J. Morris. (2016). Transcript Abundance Explains mRNA Mobility Data in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Cell. 28(3). 610–615. 82 indexed citations

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Sambade, A., et al.. (2012). The Influence of Light on Microtubule Dynamics and Alignment in the Arabidopsis Hypocotyl. The Plant Cell. 24(1). 192–201. 54 indexed citations

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Granqvist, Emma, Derin B. Wysham, Wojciech Kozłowski, et al.. (2012). Buffering Capacity Explains Signal Variation in Symbiotic Calcium Oscillations . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 160(4). 2300–2310. 31 indexed citations

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Morris, Richard J., et al.. (2012). Steady-State Kinetic Characterization of Sesquiterpene Synthases by Gas Chromatography–Mass Spectroscopy. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 515. 3–19. 5 indexed citations

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Morris, Richard J., Petrus H. Zwart, Serge Cohen, et al.. (2003). Breaking good resolutions with ARP/wARP. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation. 11(1). 56–59. 125 indexed citations

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Morris, Richard J.. (1984). The endemic faunae of Lake Baikal: their general biochemistry and detailed lipid composition. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 222(1226). 51–78. 37 indexed citations

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